Reading of Catch a Dream

Followed by Q & A with the author

FREE

Join Wendy Brown Baez for a reading from her newly released novel, Catch a Dream, which takes place in Israel in 1988. Wendy will discuss the process of changing her book from a memoir to a novel and answer questions about her experiences of living in Israel for three years. The novel, however, is a love story—with the land and its people and with a particular Israeli man, a charming enigma, dangerous but irresistible.

A woman’s healing journey begins in a country embroiled in relentless turmoil. In Israel, the first Intifada has just begun. Palestinian frustration for a homeland erupts in strikes, demonstrations, and suicide bombings. Lily Ambrosia and Rainbow Dove arrive in Haifa with their children on a pilgrimage to sow seeds of peace. Lily falls in love with the land itself, with its people, and with Levi. Her son rebels against the lifestyle she has chosen, and war with Syria looms on the horizon. Will she be able to stay? What does she have to give up and what will she be able to keep?

“Because the authenticity of the character arises from Wendy Baez’s own emotional complexity, her supposedly fictional novel took me on one of the most authentic searches for self I have ever read.” —Jerry Waxlar, author of Memoir Revolution: Write Your Story, Change the World

Wendy Brown Baez is also giving a Writing Workshop
October 20 • 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Please see that calendar date for the details.

For more info on the author and her workshops:
www.wendybrownbaez.com

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Contact:
Argos MacCallum
argos@teatroparaguas.org
505-577-2679

Teatro Paraguas
505-424-1601
www.teatroparaguas.org